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Yes there is: if you have work to be done with a low priority and no deadline, it's perfect.

For example, I bet the EC2 bill would be cheaper than my electric bill if I wanted to run SETI@home on a bunch of instances when it dropped below a certain mark.

The tech didn't exist 2 weeks ago, but now that it does there is a whole class of problems that can be solved more easily.



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